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"Philippine Government In Pre Spanish Period" Essays and Research Papers

SPANISH COLONIAL
PERIOD TO PHILIPPINE
REVOLUTION
Aims of Spanish Colonization
• God – propagation... of Catholic Christianity
• Gold – desire for economic wealth
• Glory – to be the greatest empire in the
world
THE SPANISH COLONIAL
SYSTEM
Spain Retains the Philippines Despite
Economic Loss
• As a colony, the Philippines was a
financial burden to the Spanish treasury.
The Philippines as Crown Colony
• In the sense that she belonged to the
Spanish King.
THE SPANISH COLONIAL
SYSTEM
The Council...

City, Pangasinan
TOPIC: Philippine Education during the Pre- Spanish and Spanish...Period
DISCUSSANT: Maria Cristina V. Antonio
SUBJECT: Socio Anthropology Foundations of Education
PROFESSOR: Dr. Corazon Mipalar
Philippine Education during the Pre- SpanishPeriod
Education in the Philippines evolved from early settlers to the present. Education in the country is in great importance because it is the primary avenue for upward social an economic mobility. Philippine educational system has a very...

Pre-SpanishPeriod
The first people in the Philippines, the Negritos, are believed to have come to... the islands 30,000 years ago from Borneo and Sumatra, making their way across then-existing land bridges. Subsequently, Malays came from the south in successive waves, the earliest by land bridges and later in boats by sea. The Malays settled in scattered communities, named barangays after the large outrigger boats in which they arrived, and ruled by chieftains known as datus. Chinese merchants and...

Education in the Philippines changed radically, and was before patterned from both of educational systems of Spain and the United States.... However, after the liberation of the Philippines in 1946, Filipinos then had moved in various directions of its own.
Elementary and high school education is compulsory, and is administered nationally by the Department of Education, along with the assurance of funding for school services and equipments, recruitment of teachers for all public schools, and the supervising...

Bambi Rose M. Española
BA Psychology III
December 13, 2011
PhilippinesPre-spanish Literature
Even before... the Spaniards came to the Philippines, the country already possessed a rich literary tradition. This tradition serves as a mirror of the life, values, hopes, ideals and aspirations of the ancient Filipino people.
In this tradition, literary works were usually orally passed to the next generations. Ancient people used these literary works for recreation and ritual purposes. These...

What are the contributions of the previous government to the present system of government?
Looking back to the previous...government systems in different periods in Philippine history, we can see that our present government system is somehow shaped and patterned from the previous systems that prevailed in our country. Pre – historically we have seen how they established their government and basically, we can say that it is far more primitive than the present system that we have. However, the...

:March 20, 2013
Subject: PhilippineGovernment and Constitution
Introduction:
* Background of Citizenship= Citizenship... is one of the article of the Philippine Constitution or the Fourth (4) Article. It says here that the citizenship can be loss, re-acquire, or naturalized depend on the decision of a citizen. The citizenship is a law that shows, it should be followed legally.
* Background of Suffrage= Suffrage means the right to vote. Article Six (6) of the Philippine Constitution is a law...

The Philippines had become a Spanish territory for 333 years and during the colonial period, the country was... introduced to religion, culture and language of the Spaniards, and when the Spanish rule ended, the Filipinos founded deeply ingrained in them the mark of Hispanization. In the pre-Hispanic times in the Philippines, a language common to the archipelago of the Philippines did not exist and there was no single language that can be understood by more than 37% of the population. The largest...

﻿SpanishPeriod
The Philippines has been governed by the Spaniards based on its discovery giving Spain a title to... the Philippines. The discovery was made by Ferdinand Magellan in 1521. Magellan landed on the island of Cebu, claiming the lands for Spain and naming them Islas de San Lazaro. Ferdinand Magellan converted some of the Filipinos to Roman Catholics. Magellan was killed by a local chief named Lapu-Lapu, who fought against foreign domination. Over the next several years, other Spanish expeditions...

Philippine Literacy in the Pre-Spanish Era
I. What is literacy?
A. Literacy is... defined by the society today.
1. Literacy is a person’s ability to speak and write.
2. Literacy is closely intertwined to English by today’s society.
B. Literacy in the form of functional and basic skills.
1. Basic literacy is founded through the ability to speak and write.
...

As I’ve read the pre-Spanish era given by Mr.Ralph, there are a lot of things I’ve learned, things that recalled me about the... history of the Philippines and the situation we had in the arms of the Spaniards. First, when it comes to the people who were involved in the whole history about our country, many of them exert their efforts and their ideas on how things are possible and how it can work. Different places also contributed their ideas to the development of the history by observations that...

SpanishPeriod
The SpanishPeriod (1565-1898) was believed to have started during the time of... Miguel Lopez de Legazpi, the first Governor-General in the Philippines. He was responsible for establishing peace with various indigenous tribes. During his time, many changes happened to the Filipinos. Literature, religion, lifestyles, societal classes and the like was taken into the Philippines.
Regarding Philippine literature, the Spaniards have exerted a strong influence using their own literature...

Brief History of Philippine Literature in English
I. Pre-Colonial Period
- ... Consisted of early Filipino literature passed down orally; oral pieces have a communal authorship – it was difficult to trace the original author of the piece since oral literature did not focus on ownership or copyright, rather on the act of storytelling itself;
- Many oral pieces became lost in the wave of the new literary influence brought about by the Spanish colonization; however...

ENGLISH 5
Lesson 2: The Pre-SpanishPeriod
HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND

*Long before the Spaniards and
other... foreigners landed on
Philippine shores, our forefathers
already had their own literature.
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*Our ancient literature shows our
customs and traditions in
everyday life as traced in our folk
stories, old plays and short
stories.
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Our ancestors also had their own
alphabet which was different from that
brought from the Spaniards. The first
alphabet use by our ancestors was similar
to that...

Areas of contribution |SpanishPeriod |American Period |Japanese Period | |
|Education... |The education during this |The American introduces the public |To gain the sympathy of the |
| |period is not that good. But |school system. And the American |Filipinos, the Japanese military |
| |it has, and most of the...

The history of the Philippines can be divided into four distinct phases: the pre-Spanishperiod... (before 1521); the Spanishperiod (1521-1898); the American period (1898-1946); and the post-independence period (1946-present).
Pre-SpanishPeriod
The first people in the Philippines, the Negritos, are believed to have come to the islands 30,000 years ago from Borneo and Sumatra, making their way across then-existing land bridges. According to popular belief, Malays subsequently came from the south...

The Philippine Legislature from Spanish Roots
Pre- Spanish Roots...Pre-SpanishPhilippines was composed of barangay societies scattered throughout the archipelago. These villages were located along the seashores or along riverbanks, close to the resources of food supply.
The Spanish Regime
By the time the Spaniards reached the Philippines in 1521, some of the barangays, such as those Cebu and Manila, had formed federations. By 1571, the Spaniards settled in Cebu and Manila and placed the...

SPANISH COLONY
Under Spanish rule there were established in these islands a system of primary schools. The Spanish... regulations provided that there should be one male and one female primary school-teacher for each 5,000 inhabitants. It is clearly shown in the report of the first Philippine Commission that even this inadequate provision was never carried out. They say: “Taking the entire population at 8,000,000, we find that there is but one teacher to each 4,179 inhabitants.” There were no schoolhouses...

﻿PERIOD
FEATURES
REMARKABLE CHANGES
PRE-SPANISHPERIOD
Do not have an organized system... of education as we have now.
They followed their code of laws “the Code of Kalantiao and Maragtas.
Ideas and facts were acquired through suggestion, observation, example and imitation.
The youngsters learned by experienced and the learned more in occupational.
The inhabitants were civilized people, possessing their system of writing, laws and moral standards in a well-organized system of government...

VARIOUS DEVELOPMENTS OF THE PHILIPPINES UNDER SPAIN
After arriving on the first quarter of the year 1521 and seizing the...Philippine Islands for more than three centuries, the Spaniards departed leaving not just recollection of slavery, but also the rich maturation of the country. Divergent expansions acquired from Spain crept the Philippines away from what was a simple and allusive land, to a civilized and erudite realm. Yes, suppression was at its peak back then too, everyone knows it. And most...

The Filipinos lived in settlements called barangays before the colonization of the Philippines by the Spaniards. As the unit of...government, a barangay consisted from 30 to 100 families. It was headed by a datu and was independent from the other groups. (The Tagalog word barangay came from the Malay word balangay, a boat that transported them to the islands.)
Usually, several barangays settled near each other to help one another in case of war or any emergency. The position of datu was passed...

Philippine Educational System: Historical Perspective |
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The present educational system of the Philippines is the result... of a long process of educational evolution. A. Pre-SpanishPeriod During the pre-Spanishperiod, education was informal. It means that there was no overruling agency that governs the educational system.  The child is taught at home by the parents or by some tribal tutor. The practice of apprenticeship, whereby a person usually learns some occupational...

islands of the Philippines. The rediscovery of our country by Magellan on March 17, 1521, marks a new age in our history. After this discovery,... Spain sent various expeditions for the conquest and colonization of our country, namely the Loaisa expedition (1525), the Cabot expedition (1526), the Saavedra expedition (1527), the Villalobos expedition (1542), and the Legazpi expedition (1564).
It was the Legazpi expedition which succeeded in colonizing our country and establishing Spanish rule. Spain had...

﻿AMERICAN PERIODPhilippines
TheSpanish-Americanwar which startedin Cuba, changed the history of thePhilippines. On May 1,... 1898, theAmericans led by U.S.Navy AdmiralGeorge Dewey, in participation of EmilioAguinaldo, attacked the Spanish Navy inManila Bay. Faced with defeat, thePhilippines was ceded to theUnited Statesby Spain in 1898 after a paymentof US$ 20 million to Spain in accordancewith the "Treaty of Paris" ending theSpanish-American War.
U.S. colony
Civil government was established...

Review
The Bureaucracy in the Philippines
Dr. Onofre D. Corpuz
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Institute of Public... Administration: University of the Philippines, 1957. 268 pp.
This book is about the administrative history of the bureaucracy in the Philippines. It spans from the 1560’s when Spain undertook to administer the affairs of the natives of the archipelago to the 1950’s when the Filipinos assumed the responsibility of self-government. The author presented the significant...

SPANISHPERIOD
During the Spanish colonization in the Philippines, the government was... composed of two branches, the executive and the judicial.
There was no legislative branch on that time since the laws of the islands were coming from Spain. The only laws created in the Philippines are those who were ordered by the Governor General.
The government on that time was lead by the Governor General. He was considered as the representative of Spain and the King himself. He is the highest officer in...

Spanish colonization
The invasion of the Filipinos by Spain did not begin in earnest until 1564, when another expedition from New Spain,... commanded by Miguel López de Legaspi, arrived. Permanent Spanish settlement was not established until 1565 when an expedition led by Miguel López de Legazpi, the first Governor-General of the Philippines, arrived in Cebu from New Spain. Spanish leadership was soon established over many small independent communities that previously had known no central rule. Six...

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PhilippineGovernment Bureaucracy
Submitted by:
Judd Danielle Y. Garcia
A75 / ACT143
Submitted to:
Mrs.... Maria Diana Dela Vega
Malayan Colleges Laguna
SUMMARY
According to Max Weber, Bureaucracy is a distinct form of organization that is ideal for the government. It is structured by hierarchy of offices. These offices are ranked in a hierarchical order and their operations are characterized by impersonal rules. Each office has its own task in which they follow...

The PhilippineGovernment
Structures and Powers
* DIFFERENT BRANCHES OF THE PHILIPPINE...GOVERNMENT
The structure of the Philippinegovernment is divided into three branches:
* the Legislative Department (Article 6);
* the Executive Department (Article 7); and
* The Judicial Department (Article 8).
* THE PRINCIPLE OF SEPARATION OF POWERS
The powers of the government, by virtue of this principle are divided into three (3) distinct classes: the legislative, the executive...

Our Theatrical Roots
Pre-SpanishPeriod
There was no proof that the ancient
Filipinos has stage... presentation during the pre-hispanic times.
The ancient Filipinos have performances such as ritual rites and ceromonies which were tagged theatrical.
The roots of the Philippine theater may be traced to early religious and social rituals of the natives.
To this day, some of these traditional rites and ceremonies are still practiced by the ethnic tribes.
Religious...

﻿The Philippines Under Spanish Rule (1600s-1800s)
REASONS FOR SPANISH COLONIZATION When King Charles send an... expedition to the East, his purpose was for commercial. But when Legazpi succeeded laying foundation in the Philippines, the Spanish claim the archipelago in two reasons:
first, since the Philippines was discovered under the patronage of Spain, Philippines therefore was owned by Spain;
second, since Spain, being in actual possession of the Philippines, it had the right to colonize it.
As such...

The history of the Philippines is believed to have begun with the arrival of the first humans using rafts or primitive boats, at least 67,000... years ago as the 2007 discovery of Callao Man showed.[1] The first recorded visit from the West is the arrival of Ferdinand Magellan, who sighted the island of Samar Island on March 16, 1521 and landed on Homonhon Island (now part of Guiuan, Eastern Samar province) the next day. Homonhon Island is southeast of Samar Island.[2]
Before Magellan arrived, Negrito...

Philipine Culture During Pre-Hispanic PeriodPRE-HISPANIC CULTURE
• Before the Spaniards came into the...Philippines there were existing culture of the Filipinos which were not distinguished by most of the filipinos especially for the new born filipino citizens. The Filipinos lived in settlements called barangays before the colonization of the Philippines by the Spaniards. As the unit of government, a barangay consisted from 30 to 100 families. It was headed by a datu and was independent from...

"Prior to the Spanish colonization of the Philippines in 1565, there are no written records of the islands that make up the... modern day Philippines."3 In the year 1565, Miguel López de Legazpi, the Conquistador travelled from Spain and founded the first Spanish settlement in the country, firstly on the island of Cebú. They occupied the kingdoms of Tondo and Manila, establishing it as the capital of the Spanish East Indies. "The Philippines were originally named after King Philip II of Spain- Las Islas...

The Philippines Under
Spanish Rule
(1600s – 1800s)
Political Changes
As a crown colony, the Philippines... was administered by the Council of the Indies. Even so, the Spanish officials in the Philippines were appointed by the King of Spain, who issued Royal orders and decrees dealing with the proper administration of the colony. In 1863, the Philippines, as a colony, was placed under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of the Colonies or Overseas Ministry (Ministerio de Ultramar). In order to...

Pre-colonial period
 During the pre-colonial period, education was still decentralized. Children... were provided with more vocational training but fewer academics. Philippine schools were headed by parents or by their tribal tutors. They employed a unique writing system known as baybayin.
SpanishPeriod
 When the Spanish first arrived in Manila, they were surprised to find a population with a literacy rate higher than that of Madrid.
 During the early Spanishperiod, most education was conducted...

THE SPANISH COLONIZATION IN THE PHILIPPINES
The Philippines was very lucky because our country was rich... in natural resources. And that is the reason why many foreign countries had colonized our country.
Spain is one of the foreign countries that colonized our country for more than three hundred years. They are the reason why Filipinos experienced suffered, hardship, persecution etc. during their colonization. But the Spanish had also...

A Brief History of the Philippines from a Filipino Perspective
Pre-Colonial Period
The oldest human fossil... remains are found in Palawan, on the western fringe of the archipelago. These remains are about 30,000 years old, suggesting that the first human migrations to the islands took palce during the last Ice Age, when land bridiges connected the archipelago to mainland Asia and Borneo.
The islands were eventually inhabited by different groups that developed domestic trade linkages. The archaelogical...

Philippine Literature
PRE-SPANISHPERIOD
Long before the Spaniards and other foreigners landed on...Philippine shores, our fore fathers already had their own literature stamped in the history of our race.
Whatever record our ancestors left were either burned by the Spanish friars in the belief that they were works of the devil or were written on materials easily perished, like the barks of trees, dried leaves and bamboo cylinders.
Other records that remained showed folk songs that proved existence...

History of Philippine Money
Philippine money–multi-colored threads woven into the fabric of our social, political and economic... life. From its early bead-like form to the paper notes and coins that we know today, our money has been a constant reminder of our journey through centuries as a people relating with one another and with other peoples of the world.
Pre-Hispanic Era[pic]
Trade among the early Filipinos and with traders from the neighboring islands was conducted through barter. The inconvenience...

PRE-SPANISHPHILIPPINES
It is believed that the first inhabitants of the Philippines arrived over... 300,000 years ago. It is commonly thought that they migrated over a land bridge, which existed at that time, from the Asian mainland.
The next known inhabitation is when the Negrito or Aeta arrived in the islands around 25,000 years ago. However, they were driven back by several waves of immigrants from Indonesia, only to be followed by the maritime peoples of the Malayan islands.
Although there...

The Philippine Administrative System
When talking about Philippine Administrative System, first thing that comes to mind is... about the government and its political divisions in the country. It is about the nations’s political hierarchy such as the central government, provinces, municipalities and barangay. However, these divisions and subdivisions can be attributed to our past history. It is not a plant that simply blooms from nowhere. The Philippine Administrative System is dynamic, shaped and evolved...

Information Index
On
The Malolos Republic
The Issue on Religion
The Philippine Revolution
The... Filipino-American Animosity
The Philippines under the American Rule
The Revolution Continued with the Coming of the Americans
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A Requirement for Midterm Period
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Submitted to:
Mr. Rowel L. Otero
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﻿Main Religions in the Philippines [1]
History + distrbution
Roman Catholic 80.9%, Muslim 5%, Evangelical 2.8%, Iglesia ni Kristo 2.3%,... Aglipayan 2%, other Christian 4.5%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.6%, none 0.1% (2000 census)
The Philippines is a predominantly Christian nation on account of 300 years of Spanish rule. It is estimated that 81% of the population is Roman Catholic. In the south on the large island of Mindanao, many are adherents of Islam. Filipino Muslims make up about five...

Islamization of the Philippines
Contrary to the methods of Spanish conquistadors who handled colonization at swordpoint, the... introduction of Islam to pre-colonial Philippines and to the rest of Southeast Asia was generally achieved with minimal bloodshed. By marrying into the rich and ruling class, Muslim traders, teachers and missionaries facilitated the spread of Islam as they travelled to Java, Sumatra, Jahore, Malacca, Borneo and other nearby islands to conduct their mission. By the 13th...

Education in the Philippines
During the period of colonization by the United States, Education in the Philippines... changed radically, modeled on the system of Education in the United States of the time. After theSecond World War, changes in the US system were no longer automatically reflected in the Philippines, which has since moved in various directions of its own.
Filipino children may enter public school at about age four, starting from Nursery up to Kindergarten. At about seven years of age...

BACKGROUND
Tourism is a major contributor to the economy of the Philippines, contributing 5.9% to the Philippine GDP in 2011.... The country's rich biodiversity is the main tourist attraction of the Philippines. Its beaches, mountains, rainforests, islands and diving spots are among the country's most popular tourist destinations. The country's rich historical and cultural heritage is also one of the attractions of the Philippines.
The Philippine tourism industry flourished in the 1970s and early 1980s but...

﻿PERIOD OF ENLIGHTENMENT (1872-1898)
Historical Background – The Filipino Spirit reawakened when the three priests Gomez, Burgos and Zamora... were guillotined without sufficient evidence of guilt. This was buttressed with the spirit of liberalism when the Philippines opened its doors to the world trade and with the coming of liberal leader in the person of Governor Carlos Maria de la Torre.
Propaganda Movement – This movement was spearheaded mostly by the intellectual mid-class like Jose Rizal, Marcelo...

EDUCATION DURING THE
SPANISH ERA
Prepared by:
Patricia Dela Rosa
When the Spanish first
arrived in the...Philippines,
education of the indigenous
people was mainly viewed
as the duty of religious
organizations
The Friars establish parochial
schools linked with Churches to teach
catechism to the natives.
Education was manage, supervised,
and controlled by the friars.
The Spanish missionaries aim to control of the
Filipinos, body and soul.
The curriculum then consisted of the three R’s:...

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NSTP
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Different government agencies and Political leaders in the Philippines |
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Different...Government Agencies
* The Civil Service Commission of the Philippines (CSC) is a government agency which deals with civil service matters and conflict resolution. It is tasked with the responsibility of overseeing the integrity of government actions and processes. The commission was originally founded in 1900 through Act No. 5 of the Philippine Commission and was solidified...

Chapter 7
1. Besides the commercial and religious goals of Spain in colonizing the Philippines, give two other reasons (political and legal)... why Spain claimed the country as its possession or the property of the king of Spain.
The Spain colonized the Philippines because they want to expand the Spanish empire and they want to become the most powerful empire in the world.
2. What is meant by “crown colony?” Can you give an example of a present “crown colony?”
Crown colony controls legislature...

INSPIRATION OF THE PHILIPPINE LITERATURE
BEFORE AND TODAY
A Brief Research Presented to:
Mr. Stephen Tracy E. Tabamo
English Teacher...
In Partial Fulfillment in the Subject Requirements for English III
Presented by:
Monica Mae I. Valdez
III-Hope
Date Submitted:
3/10/2012
CHAPTER I:
THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND
Introduction:
The differences of before and today were like a child’s growing status, ready to fall and develop itself to rise up. The Philippine literature has started...

perspective from outside of the country. Understanding a country’s history allows a manager to place local values behaviors in context. Often, this... means, understanding the stresses and conflicts that exist within a country
Pre-SpanishPeriod
The first people in the Philippines, the Negritos, are believed to have come to the islands 30,000 years ago from Borneo and Sumatra, making their way across then-existing land bridges. According to popular belief, Malays subsequently came from the south in...

﻿The Philippines under the Spanish colonial regime (Part I)
Taxation
Power of the state to impose and collect revenue for... public purpose to promote the welfare of the people of a particular society
8 reales at first, then 10 reales in 1589, then 12 reales in 1851.
Abolished in 1884 but replaced by a personal cedula tax based on the yearly income of the taxpayer. All citizens above 18 are required to pay the new tax.
While the rational of taxation was premised on the support of public welfare...

elections composed of a chairman and six commissioners who shall be natural – born citizens of the Philippines and, at the time of their... appointment, at least thirty- five years of age, holders of a college degree, and must not have been candidates for any elective position in the immediately preceding elections. However, a majority thereof, including the chairman, shall be member of the Philippine bar who have been engaged in the practice of law for at least ten years.
2. The chairman and the...

knowledgeable understanding about the Article II of the 1987 Philippine Constitution which is the Declaration of the Principles and State... Policies.
2. Familiarize with the terms used in the declaration of the principles and state policies
3. Demonstrate a positive increase in attitude towards the principles and policies stated in the article II of Philippine Constitution.
4. Appreciate the importance of article II of the Philippine Constitution for shaping and building the country towards...

Philippines: No Other Place But Up
The Philippines is considered one of the fastest growing economies in Southeast Asia. As of... 21st century, the country is a member in several international organizations’ including the APEC, Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and World Trade Organization (WTO). In addition the Philippines also have a lot of trading partners and trade agreements. Though, the Philippines have suffered negative balance of trade for many years. In January of 2013, the...

Propaganda Movement were called propagandists or reformists. They worked inside and outside the Philippines. Their objectives were to seek:
▪... Recognition of the Philippines as a province of Spain
▪ Equal status for both Filipinos and Spaniards
▪ Philippine representation in the Spanish Cortes
▪ Secularization of Philippine parishes.
▪ Recognition of human rights
The Propaganda Movement never asked for Philippine independence because its members believed that once Spain realized the pitiful state of the...

The Philippines of Rizal’s Time
Instability of Colonial Administration
•The instability of Spanish politics since the turbulent... reign of King
Ferdinand VII (1808-1833) marked the beginning of political chaos in
Spain.
•The Spanishgovernment underwent frequent changes owing to bitter
struggles between the forces of despotism and liberalism and the
explosions of the Carlist Wars.
•Adversely affected Philippine affairs because it brought about frequent
periodic shifts in colonial policies and a periodic...